Re: Proposal -- Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models

On 2025-05-07 07:05, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Another example is the practice to drop copyright years from copyright
> notices.  Some commercial players do this because they save developer
> time, and

> believe that the likelyhood that a copyright claim will have
> commercial effects depending on the presence or lack of the copyright
> year is low.

Basically zero, right? Because (in at least 181 countries), copyright 
attaches automatically, regardless of whether a notice is present at 
all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

> The copyright absolutist approach would be to look at laws and prior
> cases and recommend what is the safest and most conservative approach.
> As far as I know, that is still to do increment copyright years.

Can we all at least agree that annually incrementing the year in _every_ 
copyright statement in the project is wrong? You don't get a new 
copyright every year.

-- 
Richard

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